Had problems with Snow Leopard from the get-go.....

.....but I was finally able to take my desktop to a local Genius Bar today and the fix was found within minutes.
The problem I was having was that iCal wouldn't open in Snow Leopard. It would just bounce in the dock a few times and then slam shut.
Turns out that the iCal preference files just couldn't make the transition from Leopard to Snow Leopard.
So I made an appointment and took my desktop to the Genius Bar this morning at the Freehold Mall. Turns out it was a simple fix to go from Leopard (10.5) to Snow Leopard (10.6).
I just couldn't get iCal (that I rely on) to work in Snow Leopard and all I had to do was delete the preference files from Leopard (after the switch to Snow) since they got corrupted during the change from Leopard to Snow Leopard. A five second fix......DUH!!!
Cost for the "fix"? Just my time to take it there.
Snow Leopard is now my operating system and it absolutely KICKS *** speed-wise!!!

This has happened to me (I think twice in 2 years).  Nowadays I sync notes to iCloud, so if a note is lost, it is almost all recoverable.

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    jcloth wrote:
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    • Sound now starts stuttering for no reason? When I wake my computer up from sleep and I have headphones or speaker plugged in, the audio stutters greatly. I have to unplug then re-plug my speakers or headphones to fix the issue! This is a problem I saw on many PCs due to sound cards not playing with Windows nicely, but was NEVER an issue I experienced using OS X.
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    I can address some of these:
    Safari defaults to 64-bit mode silently, and this breaks most plug-ins (my issue was with download manager iGetter, specifically). I had to manually Get Info on the app, then switch back to 32-bit mode, which it seems Apple has not designed Snow Leopard to support properly?
    All applications, to the best of my knowledge, will run in 64-bit if they include 64-bit code. With most you'll never notice, but if an application supports plugins, then you have to pay attention to whether the plug-in is available in a 64-bit version. More and more are becoming available, but not all. If you have plug-ins that aren't, you need to set the app - Safari or whatever - to 32-bit mode. This is not a bug; it's necessitated by the conversion to full-time 64-bit support. The developer of iGetter claims that an update for compatibility with Safari in 64-bit mode is under development but no time frame has been given.
    Snow Leopard is perfectly capable of running 32-bit apps. You just can't mix them, running a 32-bit plugin in a 64-bit app.
    Freezes and crashes more often, most often when running Flash video. This occurs when I open multiple videos on YouTube, for example.
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    Hogging memory even more than it used to (1GB of RAM to run the app?? Really?)
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    More of an annoyance, System Preferences now has to restart the first time I click on any third-party preference in "Other". Some work, most don't.
    This is normal if a preference pane has not been provided in a 64-bit version.
    In previous OS X upgrades, Apple gave me the option to "Backup and Install". This option was not present on Snow Leopard
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    Seems to work OK for me. I've had as many as twenty open with no noticeable slowdown. But you may be opening much larger documents than I have.
    Entourage froze up when I tried to simply delete one of my email accounts. The Accounts window went blank and the application froze.
    Impossible to offer any advice here without knowing what version of Entourage you're using, whether it's been fully updated, and what type of email account this was.
    Regards.

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